Letter: Kline also effective coach

Kline also effective coach

Editor:

I read with interest the article concerning Sidney D. Kline Jr. receiving an award for his many years of outstanding community service ("Lawyer honored for community service," Reading Eagle, Dec. 26). I will add one more community serviced that was not mentioned.

In the summers of 1953 and 1954, I played on the Wyomissing Hills baseball team that was a member of the Berks County Junior League. Kline not only organized and managed the team, but also I strongly suspect that he was instrumental in financing our new uniforms.

Even though he was soft-spoken, he nonetheless got his coaching message across without the need for any abusive, in-your-face yelling. He made practices fun. I remember crowding into his big maroon Buick to get to away games.